Simon O’Neill/Christian Gerhaher/London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle: Barbican, 13.12.17 The last major work composed by Richard Strauss, and also by a mile the most beautiful, Metamorphos...Read More

Early Opera Company,Wigmore Hall, 8.12.17 Everyone knows the overture to Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Te Deum, though few have heard of that seventeenth-century French composer. After being pre...Read More

Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, Royal Opera House, 2.12.17 Damiano Michieletto’s production of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana with Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci looks like becoming one of Covent...Read More